Dr Christine Boydell
Principal Lecturer
Research Group: Design and New Product Development
Subject Area: Design History
Telephone: 0116 207 8429
Email: cboydell@dmu.ac.uk
Website: Design and New Product Development
Current Research
I am currently working on a book for V&A Publications, Exclusivity for Everyone: Horrockses Fashion 1946-64, as well as an exhibition of the same title for The Fashion and Textiles Museum, London. Both due May 2010.
Qualifications
PhD (CNAA). Marion Dorn: A Study of the Working Methods of the Female Professional Textile Designer in the 1920s and 1930s. University of Huddersfield, 1992
Postgraduate Diploma. History of Art and Design. Birmingham Polytechnic, 1982
BA (Hons) 2:1. History of Design. Manchester Polytechnic, 1981.
Awards, Honours and Commissions, 2001 – Present
Pasold Research Grant of £850 for funding for pictures for Disentangling Textiles.
External Teaching and Examinations
2004-2007: External Examiner. Design History, Southampton University. BA (Hons) Textile Art, BA (Hons) Textile Design and BA (Hons) Fashion Design
2001-2003: External Examiner. Design History, University of Ulster, Belfast. BA Textile and Fashion
1996-2000: External Examiner. Design History, Manchester Metropolitan University. BA Fashion, BA Textiles and BA Embroidery
1995-1999: External Examiner. Design History, Art Institute, Bournemouth. Design History, BA Costume for Stage and Screen
1995: External Member of Quinqennial Review. Grays School of Art, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen.
Citations, Reviews and Interviews
Review of edited book, Disentangling Textiles by Turney, in Textile History (36[1] May 2005)
Review of edited book, Disentangling Textiles by Taylor, in Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture (Vol3, issue 2 Summer 2005)
Review of edited book, Disentangling Textiles by Sykas, in Text (vol33, 2005-6).
Memberships
Member of The Textile Society.
Editorial Positions
1996-2000: Joint editor of Text (Journal of The Textile Society).
Current Research Students
PhD Emma Ronald. (First Supervisor)
PhD Paul Linnell. (First Supervisor)
MPhil/PhD Deborah Jewison. (Second Supervisor). Patterns of Identity: block printed and resist-dyed textiles of rural Rajasthan.
Publications, Exhibitions and Curatorial Projects
